Engineering is a great field to work in. There is a shortage of engineers (all science areas as a matter of fact) for many reasons. I don't possess adequate space to list all of them here. One thing for sure, many people really are unaware of what career options are available for engineers. There are so many outstanding pathways available today for future engineers. For example, a student can earn an A.S. degree in Engineering and transfer all of that program college credits to a four year college. Wow! That option was not available a few years ago. And the price of going to a community college is more affordable. I strongly think that the engineering community has to take a lead to get the word out about career options available in the area of engineering. Yes, it would be great if a few engineering companies came together and purchase a TV spot to showcase engineering careers. Something to think about.

Engineering is a great field to work in. There is a shortage of engineers (all science areas as a matter of fact) for many reasons. I don't possess adequate space to list all of them here. One thing for sure, many people really are unaware of what career options are avaiable for engineers. There are so many outstanding pathways available today for future engineers. For example, a student can earn an A.S. degree in Engineering and transfer all of that program college credits to a four year college. Wow! That option was not available a few years ago. And the price of going to a community college is more affordable. I strongly think that the engineering community has to take a lead to get the word out about career options available in the area of engineering. Yes, it would be great if a few enigneering companies came together and purchase a TV spot to showcase enginnering careers. Something to think about.

Thanks for the video, I love the animation and message, not sure how we can fix the problem though. Would require a lot of thought and experimentation to come up with the right model, I guess that is why we have pilot schools, to try something new and different. Glad your parents had the foresight to let you learn, not many do in the competiveness we have generated in our educational system today.

I think because I was a girl, I was not as encoraged when I was young to disassembling things. Fortunately I had a younger brother who was really good at dissasembly but not so good at reassembling so I got to help him put things back together. Sometimes they even sort of worked... It's interesting that we both became engineers.

In my case, I was good at math and science in high school so I thought that one of those would be my major in college. At that time I didn't know anything about engineering but I was interviewed for a scholorship by one of the engineering professors who encouraged me to check it out. When I discovered that it was engineers who got to create new things, I was hooked.

Engineering has been the best possible fit for me. I have to say that I really don't want to do anything else. My biggest problem is that there aren't enough hours in the day to explore all the ideas I have.

To make things more complex for a lot of people, please take a look at this movie. For me it was a real eye-opener. I think today *this* is the problem: Pease was right with his education opinion. It is bad to try and shape us all the same way.

As a very very slow starter I would not talk until I was 7. My parents really were not happy the way I developed myself in my younger years. I did not fit in the school system. The movie for me was *enormously* recognizable, I was different. This lucky bastard has parents who recognized that the best thing to do is give me some freedom and to let myself develop in the things I was good at. Take a guess what that was ;-)

Anyway, take a good look at the movie and let me know how you think about it. In the mean time I think of a solution, but that's very very hard to find...

I remember that when I was real young -- like 7 or 8 maybe -- my dad would brong back "stuff" from his work -- old bits of equipment that had failed and were going to chucked out -- they were mostly mechanical in nature involving lots of nuts and bolts and bits of metal -- I used to love taking them to bits (sometimes 50 or more components) and then re-assembling them (I was easily amused :-)